Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner
Janet Flannerwas an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt". She also published a single novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth13 March 1892
CountryUnited States of America
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.